On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: >> >> I wish yours it's not a RAM >> issue, it could be tricky to spot, because memtest is not putting any >> load to the machine, so it's very useful when it reports error, but when >> it doesn't you can't be sure if RAM modules are in good health. > > CPU load doesn't affect RAM errors. CPU load affects CPU errors. If you > only get RAM errors during heavy load, the RAM is just fine, but your CPU > has a fault.
Unless the CPU loading causes excessive heat and the RAM has problems only when it gets hot. In general semiconductor speeds slow down as temperature increases so a RAM that's barely in spec at room temp could be out of spec at high temp. Just an idea. - Mark
